Real reason Leonardo DiCaprio was hanging out with Teyana Taylor as they partied in NYC until 3am

Leonardo DiCaprio has been supporting Teyana Taylor amid the fallout from her messy breakup from hoops prima Iman Shumpert, according to insiders who insisted the costars are thing much than friends.

Teyana, 33, and DiCaprio, 49, who is presently dating 26-year-old model Vittoria Ceretti, raised eyebrows last week aft they were pictured looking 'cozy' astatine a enactment she hosted in grant of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at Manhattan hotspot The Stafford Room.

But contempt reports claiming the brace looked 'cozy' and spent 'all night' together, insiders person revealed DiCaprio has been helping Teyana with her interruption up and vocation since they struck up a relationship connected upcoming movie, The Battle of Baktan Cross.

'They aren’t dating but are precise adjacent and they person fixed each different a batch of proposal recently,' a root told DailyMail.com exclusively. 

'Leo has besides been supporting Teyana arsenic she deals with the fallout from her messy breakup from Iman.' 

The insider explained that Leonardo has besides go a mentor of sorts to the singer-turned-actress, who plays the pb successful the caller Dionne Warwick biopic.

'Teyana is transitioning into being a large Hollywood prima and she appreciates the assistance Leo has fixed her navigate the space,' they continued. 'They truly get on and person spent immoderate clip unneurotic recently.'

Teyana and Iman battled it retired successful tribunal for months aft it was confirmed successful September 2023 that they had called clip connected their seven-year marriage.

A period later, Teyana shared a connection which read: 'I caput my business, don't fuss cipher & y'all cognize I've ne'er played astir my children, household & our privacy. I person not spoken connected this backstage substance to immoderate media outlets oregon blogs etc.

'So everyone claiming "Teyana said" didn't get immoderate statements straight from ME. These statements were taken from backstage tribunal documents that were leaked to the public. It is precise heartbreaking that idiosyncratic would instrumentality retired the clip to marque specified a backstage substance nationalist for the satellite to see.

'However, protecting my household is 1 happening I've ALWAYS done & for my children I volition proceed to bash so. Please if y'all emotion y'all play nieces Junie & Rue similar y'all person shown, delight let my aforesaid & my household immoderate privateness to resoluteness this substance successful peace, Love y'all.'

Despite her hopes to support things amicable, the brace were soon caught up successful a ineligible backmost and forth implicit kid enactment payments - with Iman saying helium is comfy with paying $8,000 a month for their children, Junie, eight, and Rue, three.

In January the Titanic heartthrob was pictured tapping Teyana connected the backside as they filmed their new Paul Thomas Anderson movie, which besides stars Regina Hall, Sean Penn and Benicio Del Toro.

Two months later, DiCaprio was seen wrapping an limb astir Teyana successful a video from the WME pre Oscar event. 

In April 2024, Teyana unopen down immoderate speculation they were romantically linked but gushed that helium was 'the best' and ever 'cheerleads' those helium works with.

Explaining the video of them from the WME event, she told E! News she was conscionable trying to assistance him out.

'Leo wore extensions for the movie and they were hurting him,' Teyana said. 'I was virtually helping him with his bun.

'And if you've seen the extremity of the video, I said thing astir cornbread due to the fact that my cook was cooking for the full cast,' she said. 'We gotta marque definite his bun is right. We gotta marque definite he's eating good.'

'Leo is similar the best. He volition cheerlead for you each the mode through', she added.

Teyana is said to beryllium friends with Leonardo's woman Vittoria, according to PageSix. 

Until his existent emotion interest, the histrion had famously not dated anyone implicit the property of 25.

His romances with the likes of Gisele Bundchen, Bar Rafaeli, Blake Lively and Nina Agdal each ended earlier they celebrated their 26th birthdays.

His astir caller divided from Daisy Jones & The Six prima Camila Morrone appeared to extremity conscionable weeks earlier she turned 25.

He was pictured retired and astir with Vittoria arsenic the brace enjoyed a motorcycle thrust past week.

Despite keeping a casual appearance, 1 instrumentality noticed the Hollywood mates and managed to get a smiling selfie with Vittoria.